Reading remembers Wilde with Pride
Readings place in the queer history of England doesnt stop at Reading Gaol, where the playwright Oscar Wilde was imprisoned; this miscarriage of justice was commemorated last year by Inside, a remarkable exhibition in the former prison organised by Artangel and featuring work by artists including Ai Weiwei, Marlene Dumas and a reading of Wildes prison ballad by the actor Rupert Everett and Wildes De Profundis by Patti Smith. This autumn, marking the 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation
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